Re: Remote ssh access with Orca + Mag onUbuntu

[Visually_Improved <thomaslloyd at yahoo dot com>]

Because the magnifier is not very good. It does not do full screen
magnification is the main reason but there are many others suck as tracking,
I guess you do not need to use a mag on the pc and therefore do not
understand maybe. Another factor is the lack of magnification in the windows
version. I work on R&D at the Royal National College for the Blind so I have
tried and tested many options that well just do not work. The windows mag is
one. Finally I am pushing for a move to Linux and using a system that relies
on MS is not the best solution as we are teaching students.

Tom L



Nick Douma wrote:
> 
> If I understand correctly, you want a portion or everything of a X
> forwarded window magnified. Why don't you 
> just use the built-in windows magnifier?
> 
> On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 01:03:59PM -0800, Visually_Improved wrote:
>> 
>> Hey All,
>> 
>> I have been using the x server based in cygwin for remote access into my
>> ubuntu servers for some time now. I am registered blind but have a little
>> sight left. I am working at the Royal National College for the Blind
>> developing assistive technologies. I would like to get quite a
>> complicated
>> setup running. 
>> 
>>  have cygwin running on a USB stick.This can be used on any Windows PC to
>> login to my linux servers running ssh. I am running fullgraphical Gnome
>> sessions on these boxes.
>> 
>> I have the remote server exporting its display to the remote x server on
>> my
>> windows machine. This is greate. I have managed to get this working with
>> a
>> variety of windows based assistive tech but as yet I can not get the Orca
>> magnifier in Gnome to respond correctly from a remote session. I have
>> managed to get the magnified target and source setup on cygwin but the
>> only
>> way to use full screen magnification on Gnome is to provide the mag app
>> with
>> a source and target. If you have only one screen you can specify a
>> dummy\virtual screen that you can take the output from and magnify onto
>> your
>> monitor. This works as the mouse and keyboard inputs go to that dummy
>> screen
>> but in cygwin I can run two screens using the xwin options but I can not
>> get
>> the keyboard input to register in the second window that does not have
>> focus
>> on it. 
>> 
>> Can anyone come up with an idea of how to pass the mouse and keyboard
>> inputs
>> to a xwin window that does not have focus? I have been mulling a few
>> ideas
>> about to how to go about this but at the moment I am a little stuck not
>> fullyunderstanding what options I have open to me. 
>> 
>> In linux just modifying the \xfree.conf with a virtual screen and monitor
>> does the trick but I can not see that working on cygwin. 
>> Any ideas would be kindly received 
>> 
>> Tommy L
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